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Illegal saloons that sold illegal liquor
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The Secretary of the Interior who accepted bribes from an oil company and started the Teapot Dome Scandal.
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Communists
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Italian born, self-admitted anarchists who were indicted for robbery and murder in Massachusetts. They were found guilty and sentenced to death
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Against the 18th amendment.
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Number of immigrants down 3 percent of each nationality.
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The most prominent new African American leader to emerge in the 1920s
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Became the unofficial ambassador of jazz.
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Showed ordinary African Americans struggling for dignity and advancement in the face of discrimination and economic hardships.
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Probably the most powerful African American literary voice of his time.
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Traveled the rural back roads of her native Florida and expressed the new longing for independence felt by many women, black and white
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President who's administration was racked with scandal.
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Wrote the Great Gatsby
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Wrote a Farewell to arms
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a rich artistic period in the 1920's and 1930 that is named after the African-American neighborhood in NYC where it emerged; cultural resurgence in painting, writing, music, photography
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Led to the development of a national culture.
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A policy of non-participation in international economic and political relations
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African American blues singer who played and important role in the Harlem Renaissance. Empress of the Blues
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1913-1921 sick during the 20s due to stroke tried to promote league of nations
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A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921 - Secretary of Interior Albert Fall
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Industrial prosperity is #1 believed in laissez faire
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President from 1923-1933 during the beginning of the great depression. He didn't want the government involved and believed people should express individual rights.
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1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools
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1928 agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war
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first woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic
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credit buying, overproduction, less consumer spending, falling stocks
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The U.S. had recessions but they didn't recover this time from the downturn in 1929 because of the severity and length it was called the great depression.
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the day when prices in the stock market took a steep dive, over $10 million dollars gone
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Severe drought, topsoil blew away, and massive dust storms that swept everything away. In the midwest
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A tax on imported goods. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of June 1930 raised U.S. tariffs to historically high levels.
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Herbert Hoover's belief that people must be self-reliant and not depend upon the federal government for assistance.
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Set up by Hoover and Roosevelt: Government-funded projects to build public facilities
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Roosevelt: government spending, in excess of revenue, of funds raised by borrowing rather than from taxation.
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Raised Tariffs up to 60%. Hoped it would help the Economy but it deepened the depression.
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Group of expert policy advisers who worked with FDR in the 1930's to end the great depression
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Permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure citizens against economic disasters.
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Hoover and Roosevelt
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Hoover: Budget in which revenues are equal to spending
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Thousands of World War I veterans, who insisted on immediate payment of their bonus certificates, marched on Washington in 1932;
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The 32nd president of the U.S. he led the country through the Great Depression and WWII he served four terms more than any other president.
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Recovery - construct dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley region to generate electricity as well as to prevent floods
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3 part public assistance
Relief- ($, food, shelter; temporary charity)
Recovery- (Programs aimed industrial & agricultural recovery, jobs)
Reform- (lasting changes; built-in safe guards) -
Recovery: (AAA); restricted crop production to reduce crop surplus; the goal was to reduce surplus to raise the value of crops; farmers paid subsidies by the federal government;
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Recovery; suspended antitrust laws and allowed business, labor, and government to cooperate in setting up voluntary rules for each industry
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Reform -insured bank deposits up to $5,000. Today 250,000.
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relief for the unemployed. gave grants of federal money to states and local governments that were operating soup kitchens and other forms of relief for the homeless and jobless.
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"Pump - Priming" Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand.
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Hoover-created gov lending bank to businesses "millionaire's loan"
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Immediate action is taken to halt the economies deterioration.
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WPA. Hires jobless people to build public buildings and parks.
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CCC. New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work on natural conservation projects
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Droughts, New farming methods, Dwindling grassy safety net, High winds
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Reform: monitors the stock market and enforces laws regulating the sale of stocks and bonds
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Reform, administer a national pension fund for retired persons, an unemployment insurance system, and public assistance programs for dependent mothers, children, and the physically disabled.
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Relief; hired workers directly and put them on federal government's payroll
